solrize

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

I think I've seen some things like that, but you can never stop them from taking a screen shot, with a camera if necessary.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Works best with an air hockey table.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

can't stop us from HDMI capturing

Look up HDCP.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

Reddit probably beats Facebook but it's getting worse all the time. If you want to use Lemmy you might consider running your own instance. Lemmy as far as I can tell has usable photo uploading. Maybe the new thing you mentioned will be better, but idk anything about it. There is also Threads which is a Facebook thing, right?

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

On a stovetop you have to soak the beans overnight and then cook them for at least an hour, so energy usage might be higher, idk. OTOH the batch size compensates for a lot.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Or dry beans vs canned beans; does the cost of boiling the beans actually bring the cost up to be equivalent to canned beans?

Nowhere near, at least in a a pressure cooker. An electric pressure cooker uses 1KW when the heater is running, and you cook the beans for about 35 minutes. The heater doesn't run the whole time but even if it did, that's around 0.6 KWH at most. And you would normally do a bigger batch than you'd get in 1 can of beans. I have been wanting to measure the actual power usage sometime.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If you have the time for it I'd say run an independent site. Lemmy is ok for posting photos though.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Try the monthly Who Is Hiring thread on news.ycombinator.com, first business day of each month so you will have to wait a couple weeks for the next one. Here is the last one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159528

Try this too, though pickings might be slim under present circumstances: https://www.otherbranch.com/

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

99 Luftballons was the first one that came to mind.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I didn't understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn't know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This almost seems like a leopards ate my face situation. I remember Plex supplanted some other proprietary media server that went evil. I couldn't understand why people burned by the first one switched en masse to another one like it. Once wasn't enough? If you're going to switch at all, go to something that is 100% libre.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You can certainly spin up a VPS with Windows Server on it and figure outhow to do your daily tasks on it. Buyvm.net will let you run an old version at no extra charge on cheap VPS. Other hosts have newer versions that you pay a bit extra for, but it is affordable.

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Dead Stars Don’t Radiate (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.world
 

By well-known mathematical physicist John C. Baez. This refutes the article that floated around a few days ago saying the universe would end sooner than expected. That article was based on the premise that dead stars (big chunks of matter that aren't black holes) emit Hawking radiation the way that black holes do, and that the matter in the universe would eventually decay through this mechanism. The linked blog post says that the premised is wrong, and matter in normal space doesn't give off Hawking radiation. I guess in 10^74^ years (iirc) we will find out who was right!

 

Not sure if I'm posting to the right place since I think this is a lemmy.ml federation problem. I was subscribed to c/covid@hexbear.net but hexbear renamed itself to chapo.chat, so updates are now going to c/covid@chapo.chat. I try to subscribe to that from lemmy.ml and it says "community not found". I can view it directly on chapo.chat and while it's low activity, there is at least 1 newer post there than on .ml's feed of hexbear. Help?

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Raspberry pi 500 launched (www.raspberrypi.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/raspberrypi@lemmy.ml
 

Costs $90, physically looks just like 400 (no pointing device), has 8gb ram and includes a 32gb microsd card. CPU is similar to Raspberry Pi 5. There is a desktop kit for $120. So it's a $20 increase over the Pi 400, but you get an extra 4gb of ram, and an SD card. There is also a 15.6" HDMI monitor available for $100 that draws power from the computer. It's not clear to me if there is an NVMe SSD slot in the computer. It's disappointing that there is still no pointing device.

They have also decreased the 400's price from $70 to $60, and the 400 desktop kit (400+16gb sd card+power cube+mouse) from $100 to $80. I have a 400 and it is nice, but of course the 500 is a significant upgrade

Added: from this comment, "Jeff geerling just did a teardown (on his “level 2 jeff) channel and it seems there is provision on the board for a M.2 slot, but the slot and it’s support components are not populated. He actually soldered down a M.2 connector but then realised that it wasn’t just the slot that needed populating." What a pain. There are other comments speculating on a future model with a slot.

Because of the lack of M2 slot and pointing device, I'd have to carefully weigh getting a Pi 5 and external keyboard instead of a 500.

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